Readership: Graduate students, lecturers, and researchers in statistical physics and physical chemistry.
Robert M. Mazo, University of Oregon, USA
1: Historical background 2: Probability theory 3: Stochastic processes 4: Einstein-Smoluchowski Theory 5: Stochastic differential equations and integrals 6: Functional integrals 7: Some important special cases 8: The Smoluchowski Equation 9: Random walk 10: Statistical mechanics 11: Stochastic equations from a statistical mechanical viewpoint 12: Two exactly treatable models 13: Brownian Motion and noise 14: Diffusion phenomena 15: Rotational diffusion 16: Polymer solutions 17: Interacting Brownian Particles 18: Dynamics, fractals, and chaos A: The applicability of Stokes Law B: Functional calculus C: An operator identity D: Euler Angles E: The Oseen Tensor F: Mutual- and self-diffusion
